Valerij Popov
Number of games in database: 401
Years covered: 1980 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2570
Highest rating achieved in database: 2592
Overall record: +136 -83 =177 (56.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (31)      E92 E94 E91 E97 E60  English (22)      A15 A17 A11 A13 A16  Slav (20)      D11 D15 D19 D14 D12  Queen's Gambit Declined (18)      D37 D38 D30 D31 D35  Queen's Pawn Game (14)      D02 A41 A45 A40 A46  Nimzo Indian (11)      E32 E34 E21 E46 E39	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (49)      B90 B97 B22 B50 B92  Slav (34)      D11 D19 D17 D10 D18  Sicilian Najdorf (30)      B90 B97 B92 B91 B95  Queen's Gambit Declined (24)      D31 D30 D37 D35 D39  Semi-Slav (16)      D45 D46 D44 D43  French Defense (15)      C01 C03 C07 C12 C18

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page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 401  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Savon vs V Popov   1-0 58 1980 Rostov on Don tt B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 2. V Popov vs V Vepkhvishvili   ½-½ 83 1990 Open Teteven E60 King's Indian Defense 3. V Popov vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 71 1993 St Petersburg op A45 Queen's Pawn Game 4. A Gorbatow vs V Popov   0-1 25 1993 Memorial M.Chigorin C33 King's Gambit Accepted 5. V Popov vs Svidler   0-1 40 1993 St.Petersburg op E61 King's Indian 6. L Totsky vs V Popov   1-0 38 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 B20 Sicilian 7. S Kiselev vs V Popov   1-0 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 8. V Popov vs I Yagupov   1-0 39 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A21 English 9. V Popov vs I Zaitsev   ½-½ 79 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 10. Geller vs V Popov   ½-½ 23 1994 St Petersburg B06 Robatsch 11. V Popov vs E Mukhametov   ½-½ 73 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A13 English 12. A Gorbatow vs V Popov   ½-½ 69 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A10 English 13. V Neverov vs V Popov   1-0 36 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 14. V Popov vs M Turov   ½-½ 96 1994 St Petersburg op A15 English 15. N Pushkov vs V Popov   1-0 51 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 16. V Popov vs V Komliakov   ½-½ 48 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 17. V Popov vs N Legky   ½-½ 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E00 Queen's Pawn Game 18. Khalifman vs V Popov   ½-½ 19 1994 Memorial M.Chigorin A80 Dutch 19. Savon vs V Popov   1-0 42 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E10 Queen's Pawn Game 20. V Popov vs Dreev 0-1 40 1995 RUS-chT Kazan D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 21. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 11 1997 White Nights op D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted 22. Savon vs V Popov   ½-½ 12 1997 St Petersburg-B E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 23. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 46 1997 St Petersburg-B A15 English 24. Filippov vs V Popov   0-1 50 1998 RUS-ch D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. Jobava vs V Popov   0-1 35 1998 Petrov mem D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav  page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 401

Feb-14-06    SickedChess: This chess player is huge fan of Drawnik but he can draw in just 5 moves! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: Today Popov with white offer a draw to Efimenko but the GM from Ukraine decline and played for the win! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: [Event "Aeroflot Open 2006"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "2006/2/16"] [Round "09"] [White "Popov, Valerij"] [Black "Efimenko, Zahar"] [Result "0-1"] [Board "14"] [Input "DGT3890"] [Owner "Association of Chess Federations, Moscow"] 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Qd3 Nf6 7. a3 Bc5 8. e3 O-O 9. Be2 Ne5 10. Qc2 b6 11. b4 Be7 12. f4 Ng6 13. h4 h5 14. Bd3 Bb7 15. Nf3 a5 16. Rb1 axb4 17. axb4 d5 18. Ng5 Qc8 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6 d4 21. Ne2 Qxc4 22. Nxd4 Bxb4+ 23. Kf2 Ra2+ 24. Rb2 Bd5 25. Kg3 Bc3 26. Rxa2 Qxa2 27. Ndf3 Qa4 28. Qd3 Rc8 29. Rd1 b5 30. Kh2 Ng4+ 31. Kg1 Nf6 32. Kh2 Qc4 33. Qxc4 bxc4 34. Kg3 Ra8 35. Bd2 Bb2 36. e4 Nxe4+ 37. Nxe4 Bxe4 0-1 Sep-10-06    BIDMONFA: Valerij Popov POPOV, Valerij http://www.bidmonfa.com/popov_valer... _

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